Review:After reading the two books, somehow, i felt disappointed in the sense that i can feel the coldness of the main character (Laurent) through the part where they first made love. Fine...I can understand that there were not any (hot) scenes concerning both of them but on the second book... somehow, i expected it to be hot when they first did it. But it totally failed me. It may not be as very visual as compared to the other books that I've read before, but c'mon... this is already the second book. ... Read more

Review:I used to read a lot of slash fiction online, but haven't done so in the past eight years or so.. I'm sorry that I missed Captive Prince the first time around, when it was originally published in serial form on Livejournal. It's still available free online, but I bought both volumes in ebook format after reading the first chapter - this first-time author is most definitely worthy of your support!

Yes, the overwhelming 5-star reviews are REAL! This is an amazing story, the best I've read i... Read more

Review:I finally finished The Magic Mountain about our aimless young Hans Castorp, who visits his cousin at a tuberculosis sanitorium in the Swiss Alps and, in a Kafkaesque twist, ends up staying there for seven years because of a mild fever. Reading the book was like catching a mild fever (in a good way), and, in taking more than a year to finish it (I was reading many other books), I feel that I, too, absurdly overstayed the length of my visit.

I read the book once, independently, with no assi... Read more

Review:A great book at a great price. Great service. I purchased this as a textbook for a summer online class at college. Overall a great book but it is larger in size than I expected (so I am glad I do not have to travel with it) (approx 9 x 11 x 2 and about 3 lbs). print is nice and clear in two columns per page. Seven great stories for Christian living, in one volume. Thank You Read more

Review:A great book at a great price. Great service. I purchased this as a textbook for a summer online class at college. Overall a great book but it is larger in size than I expected (so I am glad I do not have to travel with it) (approx 9 x 11 x 2 and about 3 lbs). print is nice and clear in two columns per page. Seven great stories for Christian living, in one volume. Thank You Read more

Review:I'll admit this was probably my least favorite of the Murakami novels I've read, but that doesn't mean it's a bad book. Though it may not stack up favorably against the author's best efforts, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland"--like lesser works by DeLillo, for instance--still ranks above most other writers' work. Murakami's books have a certain sense of universality that isn't so much temporal as geographical. While set in Japan, they seem as though they could occur anywhere. Partly this is due to Muraka... Read more

Review:This is a great piece of fantasy fiction. With unique ideas and we'll crafted characters. The story is well told, well written and unfolds in a manner that frequently sidesteps obvious story arcs and continually surprises the reader. I'm looking forward to the further chapters in this tale. Read more

Review:Kafka is much more then the Metamorphosis and the Trial, and this collection demonstrates why. Kafka offered much while he delivered little, meaning that he opens up a universe of possibilities while confirming nothing. Nothing materializes, everything is fog. Stories that sound as if they're going to reveal the meaning of life end up only irritating you, and others, such as A Crossbreed, bore you until the final few sentences when you suddenly realize what you've been reading, and almost cry. H... Read more

Review:The fact that this book was based on true events made it more interesting.. I felt it was too objective and not written in a personal way. I have read many books about the concentration camps that brought me to tears, this one did not. Read more

Review:More than a commentary on Swann's jealousy or M. Charlus's homosexuality or the frivolity of the Guermantes' sorties, Marcel Proust's monumental work In Search of Lost Time paints the unsuccessful reconstruction of a forgone world and a lost existence from fickle memories, which like morning mists would fade with the rising sun. The narrator Marcel, longing for a past that didn't exist but must be created, sought to experience Bergson's continuous time rather than the fragmented and still-framed... Read more